FDNY FF JOHN DWYER L 78 LODD 2/6/1928

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February 6, 1928 - LODD
Fireman John Dwyer - Ladder 78
FDNY. Staten Island, New York

While operating at a two-alarm fire involving a coal pocket, Fireman Dwyer fell 80 feet to the ground from a coal hoist and was killed.

RIP. Never forget.

 

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Ladder 78 was still quartered in this former volunteer firehouse on 3 Brook Street when FF Dwyer died in the line of duty. It is unknown if FF Dwyer is in the 1920s pictures below with apparatus that appears to be new.

 

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Fireman Killed in Roof Fall​

By
Fire Engineering Staff
2/22/1928
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Fireman Killed in Roof Fall

John Dwyer, member of Hook and Ladder Company 78, of Tompkinsville, Staten Island, N. Y., was killed when he fell from an ice covered roof while fighting a fire in a city-owned coal pocket.

He was one of the first to reach the blaze and climbed a ladder to the corrugated iron roof dragging a hose after him. It was a cold day and the streams of water had frozen making the roof very slippery. Dwyer slipped. He tried to regain his balance but fell eighty feet to the ground.

An ambulance removed him to the Staten Island Hospital but he died later of a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was thirty-five years old and a member of the department for nine years. He is survived by his wife and four small children.

A sad part of the incident was that while Dwyer fell, his brother was fighting the fire from the fireboat Zopher Mills, on the other side of the building.

Dwyer was accorded a real fireman’s funeral. More than three hundred firemen attended accompanied by the fire department band.

 

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RIP Brother